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In Search of the Family of Joseph Anderson, c.1857-1904

My Mount Holyoke College students and I have been intrigued and moved by the story of Joseph Anderson, an African American laborer buried in Mont Zion cemetery in north Georgetown, Washington DC. Like Moses Boone, Joseph Anderson was interred without this brain, which had been extracted by a Smithsonian anthropologist in 1904 for the “racialContinue reading “In Search of the Family of Joseph Anderson, c.1857-1904”